A successful equity trader and investor, James (or Jim) S. Shaw has helped a number of companies gain profitability over the years through his work with several financial firms. An involved member of his Atlanta, GA, community, James S. Shaw supports a number of local organizations, including the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

1. THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL
GARDEN HELPS
RESTORE NATIVE PLANT
POPULATIONS
By Jim Shaw, Atlanta

2. Introduction
 A successful equity trader and investor, James (or
Jim) S. Shaw has helped a number of companies
gain profitability over the years through his work
with several financial firms. An involved member
of his Atlanta, GA, community, James S. Shaw
supports a number of local organizations,
including the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
In addition to more than 30 acres of outdoor
garden space, the botanical garden is home to a
conservation greenhouse that serves as a grow
room for a variety of native plants used in
restoration projects throughout the southeastern
United States.

3. Atlanta Botanical Garden
 Among the plants cared for in the conservation
greenhouse is the cigar orchid, a flower native to
Florida that has suffered a drastic decline in
population due to habitat destruction and excessive
harvesting.
Since 2007, the botanical garden has been involved in
a project to restore the cigar orchid population within
Florida’s Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. With
the help of organizations such as the Association of
Zoological Horticulture, the garden has been very
successful in its efforts. Once home to fewer than 20
cigar orchids, the Fakahatchee Preserve now boasts
a growing population of more than 500.